Margaret (White) Potter (1790 - 1849)

Born 11 Apr 1790 in Bassin Town, Santa Cruz Island (St. Croix), Dutch West Indies

Wife of Arthur Potter — married [date unknown] in St. John's Anglican Church, Christiansted, St. Croix

Descendants

Died 18 Feb 1849 at age 58 in New York City, New York County, New York, United States

Biography

Daughter of Robert and Hartshorn White.

Children:

1. Anne Eliza Elingus (1808–1863) - m. Carl Wilhelm Richter
2. Margaret (1810–1863) - m. Joseph John Tatem
3. Barnet Wathlington (1812–1813) - died young
4. Arthur (1815–1846) - never married
5. Mary Elizabeth (1817–1857) - m. Henry Erickson
6. Sarah Whathlington (1820–?) - m. John Whitehead
7. Louisa (1822–1846) - m. George Bolton
8. Charles Wilhelm (1824–1861) - m. Demaris Harker
9. Alice Jane Tatum (1826–1840) - m. Edward Bedloe
10. Frederick Carl Christian Monroe (1830–1831) - died young
11. Mary Etholinda (1832–1902) - m. Simon Aristides Atkinson

Immigration: 29 Jul 1848 - arriving in New York, New York from St Croix, Virgin Islands with daughter Sarah and her husband and daughter Mary aboard the "Charlotte.

From a document in Ancestry.com, posted by DAVID HUNTER BROWN on 25 Dec 2008:

...Sir Arthur's wife, Margaret White, and their youngest daughter, Mary Etholinda, who was sixteen at the time, went on board a steamer for safety during the Insurrection of the Negros in 1848 and never went ashore again. A fine mansion and about twenty-five slaves were left at the time of the insurrection; the slaves were freed, but someone received money for the home. The only possessions that were saved were what they carried with them at the time. One thing in particular that was saved was the family code-of-arms which was made of crimson velvet and gold, which is owned by the Mustin family of Augusta, Georgia today. Margaret and her daughter came to the states, where several daughters and a son were living.

Margaret died very suddenly soon after, and the young girl, Mary Etholinda, went to live with her older sister, Anne Eliza, who had married Charles Wilhelm Richter and was living in Madison, Georgia. She lived there until 1851 when she married Simeon A. Atkinson on October 8, 1851.

SOURCE: Letter from Mrs. William H. (Leona) Atkinson, daughter of Mary Etholinda, 32 Lafayette Avenue, East Orange, NJ. April 5, 1932.

Sources

Ancestry.com, including

• 1841 Christiansted, Rigsarkivet, St. Croix Census - housewife with three children - her husband is in the military service
• New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists for Margret Potter